Independent Films

March is a time lapse documentary by Liang Hu

It features the English city of Brighton, where I currently live.

Remnants by Grant Wakefield receives it's World Premiere at the 19th Bradford International Film Festival (UK) on 27th April 2013.

Remnants will be shown at the Pictureville theater at the National Media Museum, which is a fantastic venue, so attend if you can.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Films/BIFF/2013/R/Remnants.aspx

You can checkout the two trailers below.

REMNANTS - OFFICIAL TRAILER - 01 from GRANT WAKEFIELD on Vimeo.

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Desolation is a timelapse film by Rafael Asquith Moreno.

The imagery is striking and very high quality.

Desolation from LovetheFrame on Vimeo.

Update: The European Premiere of Rasa Yatra will be held in Prague.  It will open the 10th Indian Film Festival on 15th October, 6:30PM in Kino Svetozor.

RASA YATRA is a film by Param Tomanec, (50mins) photographed in India inspired by Baraka and Qatsi series.

"RASA YATRA evokes the beauty of pilgrimage and explores the essence of devotion in Hindu culture through non-linear narrative. Rasa is Sanskrit for 'juice' or 'taste', and it can also mean 'dance'. Yatra means 'journey', suggesting a joyful inner expedition, beyond the confines of routine and conceptual conventions. Photographed over a period of four years, RASA YATRA takes the viewer on a meditative journey from the majestic Himalayan mountains into Vrindavana, the spiritual heart of India. For the receptive viewer, RASA YATRA becomes a pilgrimage rather than a mere depiction of one."Read more >>>

Living in a Flower is a non-verbal film By Vincent Galiano.  Originally shot as a black and white short film for a contest, the film is presented here in colour.

The film centers around the Indonesian island of Flores.  

A nice little film, with reminders for those who have visited Indonesia.

Living in a flower - Sigur Ros video contest from Vincent Galiano on Vimeo.

Americana is a non verbal film by Sean Fleck.  It features lovely timelapse scenes from the USA.

"Americana", is a collaborative effort of multiple filmmakers to present a unique look at America's most breathtaking visual wonders. "Americana" also serves as the kick-off for Mount Airy Films' ambitious "The Five Year Film Project".

Americana - A time lapse journey showcasing the natural and man made wonders of the United States from Mount Airy Films on Vimeo.

Terra Sacra Time Lapses is a brilliant short timelapse film from Sean F. White.  Sean has spent many years making this beautiful film.  The timelapse sequences are incredible, as is the quality of the cinematography.

An around-the-world time lapse journey celebrating our Sacred Earth. Six years in the making... seven continents... 24 countries.

Photographed & Edited by Sean F. White http://www.seanwhite.net

Original score by Roy Milner http://www.roymilner.com

Full details and locations shot-by-shot:

http://www.TERRA-SACRA.com

Note: Be sure to set the quality to HD!

The Dragons of Metal - Tammabukku Anbar is a timelapse, nonverbal film by Nitzan Sagie.  It is heavy influenced by Koyaanisqatsi.

From Nitzan:

"I'm a composer and a film director.

I must say that when I was 10 years old, my father showed me Koyaanisqatsi, and that film really changed my life and my art; both in my music and in films. since then, I watched every film I could find that Ron Fricke & Godfrey Reggio made.

Last year I became a student in the university, studying film and cinematography, and the first film I wanted to make is an homage to all those amazing films, but with my concept and my music.

I filmed it all alone and composed the music, so the vision of the film was very clear to me from the start."

Une nuit Parisienne (Paris by night) is a time-lapse non-verbal film by Gilles De Caevel.

It's beautifully shot and shows Paris from an interesting and exciting perspective.

From Giles

"It's a thing I have done by myself: une nuit parisienne

This video had been shot between February and July 2010 in Paris and few towns around with a 50D canon. 

The music is signed by Jonsi and the title of this is "Go do" www.jonsi.com

Thanks a lot to my editor Mr Griboval and many friends of mine who care and support this project; Dawa, Camille, Sonia, Nath et Anas."

The Range of Light is a film by Lawrence Martinez

"I just wanted to share with you this film I just completed titled "The Range of Light"- I have been filming it for a little over a year.

Ron Fricke and other films that use cinema as a meditation truly inspire me.

I sincerely hope you enjoy my work!"

The Range of Light from ∞∞∞ on Vimeo.

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Here is a trailer for Living Dust.  A film by Anthony Ranville.

Anthony says :

"Set to music, images from Southeast Asia. Living Dust, a film I'm making..."

Living Dust - Trailer from Anthony Ranville on Vimeo.

Rafael Asquith has created a short timelapse film called "The War Of The Worlds".

The War of the Worlds (HDR timelapse with 7D & 450D) from Rafael Asquith on Vimeo.

From Rafael:

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Update:  A DVD is available now:  http://www.richardsidey.com/prices/index.html

A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video. Landscapes at the World's Ends is a multi-dimensional canvas of imagery recorded above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Convergence, viewed through the lens of whom is realistically an alien in this environment, the polar tourist. Filmed during several artist residencies onboard three expedition vessels, New Zealand nature photographer and filmmaker Richard Sidey documents light and time in an effort to share his experiences and the beauty that exists over the frozen seas. Set to an ambient score by Norwegian Arctic based musician, Boreal Taiga, this experimental documentary transports us to the islands of South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula, Greenland and Svalbard.

Landscapes at the World's Ends from Richard Sidey on Vimeo.

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Mina de São Domingos (São Domingos Mine) is an experimental documentary film about an abandoned copper mine in Alentejo, Portugal, which belonged to a british company for over a century. 

Iceland Images is a nonverbal film by Petur K. Gudmundsson.  Information from Petur:

This is a nonverbal piece shot during a week long roadtrip around Iceland. We headed east from Reykjavík and continued driving an extended version of the ringroad through the northen most part of Iceland and kept going all the way to Ísafjörður, capital of the Westfjords. We filmed in known as well as less known even more beautiful locations all around the country.

Iceland Images from Petur K. Gudmundsson on Vimeo.

Cormac Scanlan’s movie Hylozoism is a ‘Holistic Documentary’ which, whilst offering no answers, uses associational form to encourage its audience to ponder life's big questions. Alluding to topics as varied as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, urbanity and evolutionary biology, the film invites viewers to think about who we are and where we came from. Hylozoism asks questions about how are we connected to each other and our planet, ponders about where are we headed as species and examines our purpose as both an individual and a part in a larger society and history.

Loosely influenced by the artistic ideas of Guy Ernest Debord and the Situationist International movement, much of the film was made using the psychogeographical practice of dérive. Cormac Scanlan's form of psychogeography focuses on exploring urban and rural environments and using video and stills photography to reflect the emotions experienced at a location in the way it is artistically portrayed, as well as capturing the physical presence of the location itself.

Hylozoism was made over a period of 7 months between 2005 and 2006. All photography is original footage of a documentative nature (ie there was no setting up of scenarios, interfering with the subject, or altering the mise en scène) and all photography and video editing was done by Cormac Scanlan himself. The film features an original soundtrack, recorded specifically for the film, this was composed, performed and produced by Cormac Scanlan and Curtis Redden.

Cormac Scanlan's Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ichor/

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Grønlapse is a short non-verbal landscape film of Greenland during the Arctic summer. Comprised of mostly time lapse imagery, the film documents movements in ice, glaciers, navigating fjords and also captures the arctic sky exploding with the Northern Lights. The main glacier featured is Jakobshavn near Illulissat, the largest glacier in the northern hemisphere, which is currently releasing more fresh water each day than New York city uses in an entire year.
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Fly is a non-verbal film with scenes of Singapore and Nepal. It was screened in various film festivals around the world and won 3rd Best Amateur Documentary in the Canadian Film Festival in 1999. Fly is shot on Super 8.

Credits

• Director & Producer: Alexis Lefort
• Editor: Lars Woodruffe
• Graphic Designer: Damien Yang
• Music composers: Dinesh Rai & Nigel Woodford
• Sound Mixer: Nigel Woodford

Links

• Listen to the full length tracks at myspace.com/foreignechoes

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